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7 CHM. ANGELL FEEDING TABLE Ori inal Filed Feb 27, 1922 Patented June 9, .1925.

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CHESTER M. ANGELL, or oHicAeo, ILLmo rssAs'sIGNoR]rovns'm BATTERY con y 'rroimr oitn,oonroanrroiv or rumors;

FEEDING TBAZBLIEQ Original application filed February 27,1922, SrialNo. 539,430. Divided. and this: application filed Apri1'14, 1923; Serial No. 632,036. 1

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, CHESTER MQANGELL, a citizen of the United States,;and:a resident of "the city of Chicago, in the county 5 of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Feeding Table; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification; This invention relates to conveyor tables 7 designed tofacilitate manufacturing operations such as the production of lead castings for battery plates and other purposes.

This application is a divisional of my copending application, Serial Number 539,430,

filed February 27, 1922.

It is an object of thisinvention to provide an improved form of conveyor for continuously moving work to the workmen so that they will not be obliged to walk about from one point to another in order to obtain either tools or material.

A further object of the invention is to 7 provide a, conveyor which shall movethe molds with very little power and which shall require a minimum of attention or-repairs.

An additional object of the invention'is to provide a stationary platform centrally located with respect to the conveyor table for the support of tools or instruments for aiding the operators in their work.

5 Other and further important objects of this invention will be apparent from thedisclosures in the specifications and accom-- panying drawings.

' On the drawings:

, Figure 1 is a plan View of the arrangement of the conveyor and surrounding machinery. Figure 2 is a central vertical section through the conveyor table.

As shown on the drawings:

furnaces 1 (in thedrawing it is illustrated as four furnaces) arranged about a circular conveyor table 2. Between each pair of furnaces is placed a stationary table 3. to

receive the castings or to serve as a work bench for finishing the castings if any hand work is needed to finish them.

The conveyortable 2 is mounted upon a in any other desired manner.

serves to support a platform 19 by means The arrangement includes a number of series of ,antiefriction rollers. Preferably the .table. .is}' made of wood and; the. portion contacting with the rollers at is reinforcedby a strap or rail 5 of metal. In order that the table shall be as light as possible, the greaterpart thereof is made'open and the outer part which carries the molds is in the form of'an annularwooden ring connected to the center by byopen spaces.

The central portion 7 of the table is exstitute a hub. y

Through this hub extends an upright tended downwardly, as shown atl8,'to cona series of spokes 6 separated shaft 9, the lower end of which is steppedin any suitable thrust bearing 10, preferably 2 supplied with ananti-frictiondevice 11.

or other suitable device for insuring that the carries a motor 13. i

The upper end of the shaft' 9 is supplied 7 with alarge gear 14; which is driven from '70 i The shaft 9 is secured to thehub 8 by a key the motor 13 by a shaft 15 and a small gear 16. Although as illustrated but two gears are shown, and these are represented as bevel gears, 1t isobvious that any suitable reduction gearing may be used, whereby the table 2 is given a slow rotation from the'motor 13.. I

The upper portionof the shaft 9 is surrounded by a sleeve 17 which is securedto the support 12 by a suitable flange '18 or The shaft 17 of a flange 20 orinany other desired way.

As shown, there are-arranged on the conveyo-r table a series ofmolds 21. As the construction and operation of these molds forms no part of the present invention, and has, moreover, been fully described in my (Jo-pending application, Serial No. 517 ,4 17 filed November 25, 1921, they need not be described here. I p

' On the platform 19 may be arranged tools or instruments for aiding the operators in their work. As shown, a series of fans 22 are mounted on the platform for cooling the molds. c

I am aware that numerous details of conpurpose limiting the patent granted otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention: V I

1. A circular conveyor table, a track upon the underside of said table, antifriction supporting devices contacting with said track, means for rotating said table and a circular stationary platform arranged above the conveyor table concentrically therewith.

2. A: circular conveyor, table, a track upon the underside of said table, anti-fries tion supporting devices contacting with said track, a verticaldrive shaft central of the table, a stationary sleeve around said shaft,

15 a platform:abovethe table and secured to said sleeve, and driving means for said shaft above said sleeve.

3. A circular conveyor table, a vertical drive shaft central of the table, a stationary sleeve around said shaft, a platform above the table and secured to said sleeve and driving-means for said shaft above said Sl ve In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two sub- 

